My legacy

My legacy -
What will it be?
Flowers in spring,
The cuckoo in summer,
And the crimson maples
Of autumn ...

- Ryokan

For as long as I can remember

"For as long as I can remember, people have liked to talk to me. You.......kind of how somebody says something to you...........it doesn't have to mean so much. It's just that it opens a door for you, and you can see into a room that you couldn't see into before. It doesn't really matter how you got there. The important part is...you're seeing something new and different."

~Allie Keys, Stephen Spielberg's "Taken"

Only those

"Only those who are willing to risk going too far will be able to find out how far one can go."

~T. S. Elliott

The powers of the soul

The powers of the soul are commensurate with its needs, all experience to the contrary notwithstanding.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't worry

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia."

~Charles M. Schulz

She danced

"She danced the dance of Flames and Fire, She danced the dance of swords and spears, She danced the dance of stars and the dance of space, and then she danced the dance of flowers in the wind."

~from The Wanderer by Khalil Gibran

Truth can be found

"Truth can be found anywhere. We are part of the universe, as a Whole. But each of our viewpoints is that of a distinct, dynamic space-time coordinate. Imagination is the memory of that connection."

~Redshift

The soul

"The soul doesn't care at all what price we have to pay to follow our calls. Our happiness and security and status simply don't matter to it, although our courage, faith, and aliveness do."

~Gregg Levoy

Like buried treasures

"Like buried treasures, the outposts of the universe have beckoned to the adventurous from immemorial times..."

~George Ellery Hale

Coincidence

Coincidence is God's way of performing a miracle anonymously.

~Anonymous

One thing that comes

"One thing that comes out in myths is that at the bottom of the abyss comes the voice of salvation. The black moment is the moment when the real message of transformation is going to come. At the darkest moment comes the light."

~Joseph Campbell

Without a dream

"Without a dream, honesty, mercy, indignation and courage must remain impotent."

~Taylor Caldwell

You cannot

You cannot feel others pushing you. You can only feel yourself pushing back.

~Anonymous

HOLY FIRE

"It is pointed out by science in the form of the various energies of the world, from nuclear fusion in the stars, to life, to soul. In all these ways, the universe is ablaze! Fire is the archetypal energy. It represents the ultimate, of which all other energies are special manifestations. Everything is illumined and animated from within by Divine Fire. God is in the world as `a universal transparency aglow with fire.'"

~Teilhard de Chardin

One does not

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

~André Gide

When you change

"When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

~Wayne Dyer

We lie

We lie in the lap of immense intelligence, which makes us receivers of it's truth and organs of its activity.

~Ralph Waldo Emerson

We put ourselves

"We put ourselves in boxes that seem impenetrable....but they are only put there by our own doing...boxes can be opened and new things/places/people discovered. Life is really more than what we see and hear with our eyes and ears....life is lived through our hearts."

-- Thea Graham

Until one has loved

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

~A. France

To recognize

"To recognize the sacred is not so much to see new things, as it is to see things in a new way. The sacred is not separate or different from all things, but rather hidden within all things…"

~Seva

So I feel like

"So, I feel like I am sitting in the middle of the storm, while the world is holding its breath. That, or I have already slipped quietly into the long night of absolute madness....."

~Anonymous.